2026 – Get Rid of WordPress and other Resolutions

WordPress has been the downfall of my use of the internet. It remains the most counter-intuitive, difficult, and self-inflicted activity I endure each time I try to use it. As I write this blog, I have no idea where it will show up after I hit the PUBLISH button. Adding a photo is a task which requires a review not unlike cramming for a final exam.

It is my first 2026 resolution that I get rid of it. I tried in 2025 but I had no confidence in how I might locate another home for my URL domain names. The task was too difficult. But I will try again, and again, until I leave this wicked and strange place.

Login to the editor is convoluted. I navigate between my hosting site, wordpress.com, and wordpress.org, until I find something that works. I have multiple logins and passwords and a folder of bookmarked pages each preserved by me as shortcuts to get logged in. None of them work. What would possess a company to name the free part of its website with the same name as the paid part?

After I at last found myself on my editor page, I was greeted with a notice that I had received 153 comments on my blogs. Eager to receive feedback, I clicky-clicked my way to the comment review page only to learn that all the comments were generated by spammers. I had to delete all of the comments. It takes time. My time.

Twenty years and counting I have been on the web. I feel like I have had no impact at all. I cannot compete with the community of people who spend every working moment redesigning the web, adding layers to the onion, and decreasing the likelihood that my writing will every be seen by anyone other than a spammer. It has been a waste of time.

I remember the simplicity of the web, but you either know about that too, or you don’t. No reason to go over that. 2026 is the year that we realize we never had a chance in 2025. If ever you thought your words could make a difference, reverse a decision, win an argument, or revise a policy, you now know that you have no influence at all. Degenerates have influence. Criminals have influence. Liars, thieves, murders, soldiers, rappers, actors, wayward lawyers, and the nescient have influence. Sane, common, and boring people have no influence. I am all of those.

I cannot think of any other resolution to make. I quit tobacco and alcohol. I have no need to commit to being more moral. My major life achievements are mine alone and of no concern for anyone who is working on their own. I have written over 200 pieces of music that will never be performed. I have written thousands of pages that will never be published. Paintings I created hang on the walls of my home which will never be seen, sold or displayed in a gallery. Over fifty-one years of knowledge about my field gained and very little of it has been preserved. Sane, common, and boring people have no influence. I am all of those.

If I can just get rid of WordPress, I would think it would be a tremendous accomplishment. If I can do that much, 2026 will be a good year.